Well, we have to provide the world's best schools. We certainly don't have them, but that's our objective.

You have to understand, we have better communications and better transportation, so people know what's available elsewhere and can get a message out, and you can move things. And you [can] say that the economy is more unpredictable.

After hard work, the biggest determinant is being in the right place at the right time.

Millions of Americans have contributed to building a stronger Israel; I've been proud to be one of them. Last year, I went to Jerusalem to help dedicate in my father's name a new MDA medical facility which treats people of all faiths and all nationalities absolutely equally.

We can be certain that cities around the world will compete for the jobs that the next revival of the financial services industry will bring.

What has changed is that people have stopped working together.

We are the safest large city in America, but any crime rate is too high.